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June 2000

Issue Number: 124
Wood Store

Pocket-Hole Routing Jig Woodworking Plan

A simple, no non-sense design.

Given how specialized the tools are for pocket-hole joinery, some woodworkers have balked at using the technique for projects. Nowadays, the dedicated jigs for drilling pocket holes are very affordable, but reader David Brunson of Loudon, Tennessee, came up with a router table jig for the same purpose. We tweaked his idea to get the design shown.

Measures aproximately 10" deep.


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Flip-Up Pen Box Woodworking Plan

It stores a pair of pens, then hands them to you.

Raising the lid lifts the pen and pencil right out of this handsome desktop box. It's perfect for turned wooden pens and pencils'you could even make the box from the same kind of wood as the writing instruments.

Box measures aproximately 6" long, 2" deep, and 2" tall.

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